TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental barriers and housing accessibility problems over a one-year period in later life in three European countries
AU - Iwarsson, Susanne
AU - Nygren, Carita
AU - Oswald, Frank
AU - Wahl, Hans Werner
AU - Tomsone, Signe
N1 - Funding Information:
The project “Enabling Autonomy, Participation, and Well-Being in Old Age: The Home Environment as a Determinant for Healthy Ageing” (ENABLE-AGE) was funded by the European Commission (QLRT-2001-00334). The Swedish ENABLE-AGE team is grateful for additional funding from the Swedish Research Council on Social Science and Working Life, the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences, and Spatial Planning, and the Swedish Research Council.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The objective of this study was to describe environmental barriers and investigate the nature of accessibility problems in housing among single-living, very old people (N = 1,150) in urban regions in three European countries (Sweden, Germany, Latvia), in a one-year perspective. A specific feature of this study is the explicit conceptual differentiation between environmental barriers and accessibility problems, underlying the presentation of the following results: Environmental barriers were very common, and in all three national samples the 20 most prevalent environmental barriers were found in 77-98% of all dwellings investigated. The magnitudes of accessibility problems were similar among the three samples and did not change over one year, while differences were indicated in the types of environmental barriers generating accessibility problems.
AB - The objective of this study was to describe environmental barriers and investigate the nature of accessibility problems in housing among single-living, very old people (N = 1,150) in urban regions in three European countries (Sweden, Germany, Latvia), in a one-year perspective. A specific feature of this study is the explicit conceptual differentiation between environmental barriers and accessibility problems, underlying the presentation of the following results: Environmental barriers were very common, and in all three national samples the 20 most prevalent environmental barriers were found in 77-98% of all dwellings investigated. The magnitudes of accessibility problems were similar among the three samples and did not change over one year, while differences were indicated in the types of environmental barriers generating accessibility problems.
KW - Design features
KW - Environmental barriers
KW - Housing accesibility problems
KW - Housing enabler
KW - Very old people
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U2 - 10.1300/J081v20n03_03
DO - 10.1300/J081v20n03_03
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33845921332
SN - 0276-3893
VL - 20
SP - 23
EP - 43
JO - Journal of Housing for the Elderly
JF - Journal of Housing for the Elderly
IS - 3
ER -
